Defenders of the Jewish People: Remembering Israel’s Fallen Soldiers

We have to realize: These Jews are not going to an Orthodox shul. They’re not coming through the shul doors. We need to be building…

Who shops for the specialty items for the shul kiddush you enjoy every week? Who privately fundraises for boys and girls to attend yeshivah and…

Misconception: In order to temporarily relocate a sefer Torah, such as to a shivah house, halachah requires that it be read three times in its…

A party or other Chanukah get-together reminds us not to normalize the miraculous, but rather to be “Yehudim” . . . the people who acknowledge…

Ote LaParasha by Rabbanit Atira Ote 

The same-but-different-ness of various historical periods is always a point of surprise. While circumstances change, human nature and emotion often do not.

Everyone, from the prime minister of Canada to local politicians, news reporters and the Ottawa chief of police issued statements of condolence over the rabbi’s…

The difficulty of reading the Guide is no longer an excuse for putting off reading this seminal work of Torah thought. 

Medinah, Halachah VeKavanot HaTorah; Living in the Land: Firsthand accounts from Bnei Torah and their families; Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest…

What began years earlier as a hobby with tools and piles of wood has evolved into a sacred calling to help others in our Jewish…